My younger brother Ron and I were very big for our age. When people told Pop, "You have really good looking boys," Pop would smile and agree: "Yep, they're strong as an ox and nearly as smart."

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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Immigration Reform Made Easy

I appalled some conservatives at a
fun get-together when I mentioned my immigration reform plan was basically to
throw open our borders. We can't secure our borders first, then do something to
reform immigration, because trying to secure our enormous border with Mexico is
futile; it’s never worked, it never will.

A recent study showed that every
100 foreign-born skilled workers with advanced degrees from U.S. universities produced
an additional 262 jobs for native-born workers. When they are here legally,
they also pay more taxes, use less welfare, register and insure their cars, get
drivers' licenses, buy more homes, commit fewer crimes, are victims of fewer
crimes, &etc.

New immigrants, and Illegal
immigrants with clean records, should have legal status and be eligible for
citizenship after five years.

We can’t control our border with
Mexico effectively, and why try? We need their labor; it’s good for our
economy, even from unskilled and uneducated laborers. Why not give everyone
legal status and invite in all countries’ best and brightest? Most foreigners
who are skilled and educated face waiting periods of 10 years or longer just to
gain entry. They can't become illegal aliens and sneak in, because the work
they are best qualified to do, and the investments they could make, require
legal status.

We need to get out of the
immigration box for the good of our country. Forget parties; unions have stuck
their wholly owned subsidiary, the Democrat Party, in its own immigration box.
They don't want a flood of highly skilled, educated, entrepreneurial people,
they want ones they can control and organize into unions and reliable voting
blocks. Success in our free economy is bad for unions, but good for the country.